It isn't the movie. It's imperial power stripping the status of adulthood from people--

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70. Your OP's making the point that US imperialism has created the rage in the ME that fuels these riots

and protests.

My point is that many, many other countries and cultures have been as similarly "oppressed" or "colonialized" or humiliated, 'murdered, destroyed, brutalized and exploited. Yet they aren't storming embassies or rioting over past grievous offenses etc.

Many of these cultures also have the same macho pride and sensitivity to perceived slights and deep religiosity as the ME.

So I just don't see the logical conclusion that many DUers, including your OP, are making about the raison d'etre for the violence in the ME. JCMach1, a Muslim recently returned from almost 10 years in the UAE, doesn't believe the seething rage in the ME is because of US imperialism but is instead because of the Saudi clerics that have infested every country with their fundamentalism. Others are trying to make this about AQ and their continuing efforts to destabilize western powers although even that theory seems to be falling apart as the State Dept says that the Libyan attack on the ambassador appears to have been spontaneous.